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  • Stephen King dark tower?
    No. Not western, no guns, no science, not really horror.

    WoT is the whole “forgotten/suppressed magic, ‘the one’, forces of long imprisoned evil” kinda fantasy, along with a rise to power, world politics, massive battles, adventure, and - I guess - romance.
    Has a lot of the tropes, but carves a great story and adventure.
    I genuinely recommend it. I’ve read it 3 times, and I enjoy the TV series.

    It’s a 15 book epic fantasy, with the last 3 books written by Brandon Sanderson according to (deceased, 2007) Robert Jordans notes.

    It’s good.
    It has it’s faults, Robert Jordans writing has it’s faults.
    But it is good, a great story, a great adventure, a great over-arching story. And 15 books long, makes it great read to sink into and enjoy.




  • A page could load thousands of images and thousands of tiny CSS files.
    None of that is JS, all of that is loads of extra requests.

    Never mind WASM. It’s a portable compiled binary that runs on the browser. Code that in c#, rust, python, whatever.
    So no, JS is not the only way to poorly implement API requests.

    Besides, http/2 has connection reuse. If the IP and the TLS cert authority is the same, additional API/file etc requests will happen over the established TLS connection, reducing the overhead of establishing a secure connection.

    Your dislike is of badly made websites and the prevalence of the browser being a common execution framework, and is wrongly directed at JS.






  • I was working for an international company that was very modular.
    At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
    All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of “we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact…”.

    The event update was in English.

    The mail system was down for about an hour.

    After the initial rush, I’m pretty sure there were also “we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact…”




  • I don’t know that he has helped build anything. He has helped hype 2 companies.
    He did great PR when someone was managing him, but recently his PR is poison.
    SpaceX is managed by someone competent, musk has - quite frankly - little to do with the company.
    Tesla is riding the hype from before musk took off the mask. I give them 4 years, tops. If it’s not already on the way down.

    Intel needs to be run and managed by engineers. That’s what we want from core components. Not hype, not bubbles, not marketing speak, not fancy names and confusing part numbers. We want actual engineers who have thought through the implications of their decisions all the way to the end consumer. We want hardware that works and is predictable.